The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-24
Farm and Garden Notes.

As a rule, the best quality and the
best yield go hand in hand.
Employ extra help for the kitchen as
well as the field during harvest.
Give breeding cows the run of clover
field all through the summer if you can.
Stable manure, says Professor Chamber
lain, of Iowa, is the best fertilizer on
earth.
Poultry thrives in orchards and do the
orchards much good, for they kill many
insects.
The Crown Prince of Germany sells
1000 quarts of milk daily from his dairy
farm near Berlin.
Cultivation should be more and more
shallow rs corn increases in size, SAYS an
Ohio Experiment Station report.
The swine breeders of Iowa have
come to look upon white clover as an ex-
cellent summer pasturage for hogs.
Most farmers can keep few hives of
bees to advantage. Honey, like fruit,
should be found on the farmers table
The Farmers Club Journal says: 'The
rock which wrecks many a breeder of
swine is a desire to breed too young"
Keep the hoe moving; it will not only
kill the weeds, but render the soil mel
low, and thus promote rapid growth to
the crops.
Prof. Morrow says: "Cut hay green.
Nearly all grasses loose value as they be-
come fully matured, some become COM
paratively worthless"
When the mere fact of dam being n
registered animal makes a difference of
5000 to $500 in her progeny, it is the
height of folly to raise scrub stock.
When working your corn when the
ground is dry, do most of the work in
the early part of the day and dress the
rows near the stalks, removing clods.
To have stock on your farm which will
sell at high prices, breed good grade
tilly, sired by registered draft horse or
trotter, while the mare is young and
strong.
A successful horse breeder says that
an animal needs as much feed the first
year of its life as in any subsequent
year, and that it should be fed a little
at a time, as often as it will eat
A Scottish writer says always speak to
a COW as if she were lady, and speak to
and treat bull as if he were a gentle
man. Animals possess far more intel
ligence than is usually attributed to
them.
An exchange says churning should
never go any further than to bring the
butter and leave it in granular form.
Butter should be worked but little, and
the only Office of that little is to liberate
the brine.
When your horse SHES at anything,
make him acquainted with it; let him
smell it, touch it with his sensitive up
per lip and look closely at it. Continue
the lesson and you will cure your horse
of all nervousness.
All stock-particularly work horses
should have frequent small drinks of
cool, pure water. They require salt at
least once a week. If kept in the stable,
so as to be "handyn for use, the salt
should never be left uncovered.
A man who raised 300, 900 cabbages
last year kept the flea beetles away. lie
poured a gallon of spirits of turpentine
into a barrel of land plaster, and when
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spread it broadcast over his cabbage
patch, applying it when the cabbage was
dry.
Horses at hard work need special care,
both in food and general treatment.
They cannot do hard work on grass
alone and should have a proper ration of
oats. An occasional washing, in addi-
ton to currying and brushing, will help
keep the coat in good order. Use a cot
ton sheet to keep off flies. Water fire.
quently and they will not drink to ex-
cess. Clean and sweet stables promote
the health of the animals.